initialize
pronunciation
How to pronounce initialize in British English:
UK [ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz]
How to pronounce initialize in American English:
US [ɪˈnɪʃəˌlaɪz]
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- Verb:
- assign an initial value to a computer program
- divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
Word Origin
- initialize (v.)
- 1833, "to designate by initials," from initial + -ize. Meaning "to make ready for operation" is from 1957. Related: Initialized; initializing.
Example
- 1. There is no constructor defined to initialize it to another value .
- 2. Scala also requires you to initialize a var when it is declared .
- 3. No constructor logic is required to initialize these fields , in contrast to most other object-oriented languages .
- 4. If a concrete field in a trait does not have a suitable default value , there is no " fail-safe " way to initialize the value .
- 5. This will create a new nsmanagedobjectcontext instance , and initialize it with the default nspersistentstorecoordinator . This is all that 's necessary to create a usable scratch context .